I have not seen him since 20 Nov, and it was VERY cold here for a while.
My gas-guy got pneumonia and was behind on his deliveries. We can let it go to 20%, but when it is VERY cold we have had problems with pressure (or did, with a smaller bottle and bigger water-heater), so I was breaking every snow in hopes he would come.
6+ weeks of whole-house heat, with 2+ weeks at near zero F (-18C); yeah, big tanks, 300 gal nominal capacity. I seriously considered owning my own 1,000g tank to get bulk-price, but I'd have to know a lot more about propane price swings to cover the investment.
FWIW: propane is $1/gallon... in Texas. Here we pay $1.85 at the pump, ~~$2.20 delivered in leased tank. Half the price is getting it up here. One year the spot-price spiked near $4/gal. (Nat-gas gets priority in the pipes, and when it gets very cold in the NorthEast the pipe runs at capacity and propane falls behind.)
It was so painful that I mis-remembered. It was 210.4 Gallons for $494.44, $2.35/Gallon.
Propane runs about 4 pounds per US gallon. So I am paying (delivered, his tank) US$0.59/pound.
The Fosters oil/gas depot has a pump for propane road vehicles. Their price is of course lower, posted $1.85 recently. That is US$0.46/pound. I believe that pump is self-service or minimal service.
Also considering the US$/CDN$ rate, I'd say you are paying significantly less than I am. Perhaps your propane flows up from San Diego or west from central Canada? The pipe from Texas toward Maine is long and gets strained in winter, and stops before the border. All prope here is trucked the last hundred(s) miles.
Drove some 200 km (125 miles) to pick up a slide projector hoping to be able to, by making smaller adjustments, scan all my color slides.
Have to find a way to adjust my camera for maximum resolution and minimum distortion.
Using this method.
Have to find a way to adjust my camera for maximum resolution and minimum distortion.
Using this method.
I don't know about propane prices.
I use kerosene for heating and prices are volatile at the moment.
Some suppliers say the price is about to go up, others say down.
I just paid 44.65p / liter for a 1000l delivery but was quoted anything between 57.035 and 43.80 pence/litre.
This will last until this time next year.
Andy
I use kerosene for heating and prices are volatile at the moment.
Some suppliers say the price is about to go up, others say down.
I just paid 44.65p / liter for a 1000l delivery but was quoted anything between 57.035 and 43.80 pence/litre.
This will last until this time next year.
Andy
Keeping my car audio project frugal:
PIONEER TS-D1602R 6.5" 2-WAY 250W MAX 60W RMS FRONT CAR AUDIO COAXIAL SPEAKERS | eBay
I figured they will do the job fine, 60w RMS, 35-32,000Hz, only 88dB sensitivity.
I investigated the possibility of using the cheaper Vifa drivers as car speakers and it just costs too much in postage to import them.
Such as these:
Silver Flute W17RC38-04 6.5" 4 Ohm
Vifa BC25SC06-04
Only buying enough sound deadening material to do the front doors and boot:
3x1M Car Hood Door Heat Sound Deadener Reducer Insulation Underlay Mat 32sqft | eBay
Rest of my pay will go into Japanese food that I will buy today sometime.
PIONEER TS-D1602R 6.5" 2-WAY 250W MAX 60W RMS FRONT CAR AUDIO COAXIAL SPEAKERS | eBay
I figured they will do the job fine, 60w RMS, 35-32,000Hz, only 88dB sensitivity.
I investigated the possibility of using the cheaper Vifa drivers as car speakers and it just costs too much in postage to import them.
Such as these:
Silver Flute W17RC38-04 6.5" 4 Ohm
Vifa BC25SC06-04
Only buying enough sound deadening material to do the front doors and boot:
3x1M Car Hood Door Heat Sound Deadener Reducer Insulation Underlay Mat 32sqft | eBay
Rest of my pay will go into Japanese food that I will buy today sometime.
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Sorry to hear that. But in this world of plenty we have the choice to choose whatever diet we want to, for much greater health benefits.
There is just too much sugar and salt in the western diet. I'm fed up with the prepackaged foods which taste good but have a lot of meat and sugar and salt in them and very little vegetables and the vegetables in western diets are made to taste terrible, like broccoli or cabbage or potatoes or cucumber. When you boil vegetables to make a western meal nothing is done to the vegetables to make them more palletable, we're meant to add butter to them or tomato sauce or pepper. Boring. I'm bored with pepper, its such a monotonous taste.
Everything in the Japanese diet is made to accentuate the natural tastes of vegetables and does very little to the meat in the diet. You won't find overly salted ham in a japanese diet or overly salted anything. It always has just the right amount of salt or sugar.
Instead you put sushi vinegar and sesame seeds on a cucumber salad instead of Cesar salad dressing.
Or in the case of sushi you don't cook the salmon but wrap it in avocado and rice and instead of using bread you use seaweed.
And you might think that the Japanese diet is high in salt, yes slightly, but there are low sodium alternatives like white miso paste which, unlike western low sodium alternatives, still taste good, it just has a more soy based taste, and a smooth texture with less fragrance.
But I still prefer the red miso paste. I simply don't use as much.
For example in a Japanese diet you wouldn't use a whole steak and a whole leg of ham, Instead you would cut it up into little strips and add it to a mostly-vegetable and rice dish, which is much more healthier.
And as for ham, I can make a small leg of ham that is 400 grams in weight last at least a month (or 3) as an ingredient added to Miso soup, it tastes great and it gives you a small amount of meat, which isn't really necessary to enjoy a bowl of miso, the meat is cut up into small 1cm cubes and only a dozen or less is added to each bowl. Very healthy especially considering the human body has a hard time digesting meat.
And in a Japanese diet you wouldn't eat an entire plate of food, instead you have 5 small bowls and pick and choose between each one, One of the bowls being 100% rice, in three meals per day. So your body is getting a wide array of nutrients from the entire pallet of food. For example its common to serve miso soup both at breakfast and lunch and dinner, as a to coin a western term "side dish". The Japanese diet is pretty much just a bunch of side dishes.
So if I were to compare it to a western diet, a western diet would have you eat 3 main ingredients, a large steak (with heavily salted and seasoned meat), peas (little nutritional value compared to the wide variety of ingredients in Japanese foods), and potato. And have an extremely high sugar content breakfast, which is just horrid. And maybe a salad for lunch which is mostly lettuce, which always goes off!
The only downside to a Japanese diet is that the vegetables and tofu and sushi goes off too. But I would prefer that I eat mostly fresh ingredients and combine them with either dried or salted (for preservation. you wash off the salt before using the ingredient, in this example kombu) ingredients which last a long time in storage.
Doing it this way allows me to go to the shops every 4 days and buy the freshest ingredients to restock my japanese ingredients in addition to buying fresh sushi salmon. But instead of buying only salad/lettuce, I can make a diet which will combine tons of fresh ingredients.
Basically I'm moving from buying things in the isles as prepackaged foods and going to the fresh food section where I can choose from any vegetable and make a meal out of it with a Japanese recipe, which tastes good too but has little strong flavors like sugar or salt.
Some info: Diets of the World: The Japanese Diet
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A 400 gram leg of ham, that pig must have been on the same diet as my friend's father.
Venus, since when have McDonald been serving healthy Japanese cuisine, perhaps just in the land of OZ? :-D
A 400 gram leg of ham, that pig must have been on the same diet as my friend's father.
No no, Bibina which sells legs of ham will get you a piece of the finest quality ham, that is where I went to the last time. It was slightly smoked. Very nice. But cost like $70. I'm actually thinking of going there today but I have no reason to after ordering the main ingredients online.
Well because I'm on a strict gluten free diet things get expensive on my diet, I usually make either GF Lasagna or GF Spaghetti Bolognese, those two meals are the cheapest you can get. I have been going down to McDonalods lately instead of cooking because its not only just cheaper and easier than cooking its also gluten free sometimes, my mum doesn't feel like cooking either with the way that she is, she has been having health problems but I digress.
All I get when I go down to McDonalds is a few large chips for me and mum and a thickshake or two for me and mum. My mum also will get a fillet-o-fish and/or a chicken burger. That is basically what we have been eating for dinner lately.
A few months ago I would also occasionally pig out and get a hamburger, whenever I eat the hamburger its not 100% GF so I simply peel off the buns and eat the meat and cheese with my fingers, then it becomes gluten free! But I haven't done that since Dec-17.
You can see that I need a Japanese diet pretty quickly, I'm basically living off chips and thickshakes.
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Once a month we take our daughter over to the Pittsburgh area (70 miles) to get food at Trader Joes. It is our ritual to hit the thrift stores and consignment shops on the return trip. I usually zip through those places in about 2 minutes since they rarely have any clothing, speakers or electronics that I'm interested in. The women, on the other hand can be in there for an hour or more.
Yesterday we walked into a Goodwill, and there it was, a Hammond M3 tonewheel organ from 1958 with the instruction books, warrantee certificate, and several other books. There were receipts from about one year ago where it had been moved and serviced for almost $300.
As with all vintage electronics, the power cord had been cut off. They are not allowed to sell anything that has a non-polarized power plug for fear of lawsuits.
It would not fit in the car we were in, so taking it home was not possible. The clerk said that I could pay for it, then pick it up within two days, or I could take my chances a come back later. I dropped the $40 price that they were asking yesterday, then drove my 10 year old 2WD drive Honda Element over there in a snowstorm this morning to get it.
Due to the current weather and the ice on my driveway, it will probably stay in the Honda for a day or two. It took me and two other guys to lift it into my vehicle.....book says 250 pounds. I'm not too sure how I will get that down into this basement......
It will be interesting to see if it works, can be fixed, or gets parted out.
Yesterday we walked into a Goodwill, and there it was, a Hammond M3 tonewheel organ from 1958 with the instruction books, warrantee certificate, and several other books. There were receipts from about one year ago where it had been moved and serviced for almost $300.
As with all vintage electronics, the power cord had been cut off. They are not allowed to sell anything that has a non-polarized power plug for fear of lawsuits.
It would not fit in the car we were in, so taking it home was not possible. The clerk said that I could pay for it, then pick it up within two days, or I could take my chances a come back later. I dropped the $40 price that they were asking yesterday, then drove my 10 year old 2WD drive Honda Element over there in a snowstorm this morning to get it.
Due to the current weather and the ice on my driveway, it will probably stay in the Honda for a day or two. It took me and two other guys to lift it into my vehicle.....book says 250 pounds. I'm not too sure how I will get that down into this basement......
It will be interesting to see if it works, can be fixed, or gets parted out.